Social Security payouts belong to the people

Published 5:40 pm, Wednesday, April 6, 2011

President Obama wants to cut payouts of Social Security. This money does not belong to the government. It belongs to us. We paid in week after week, month after month, year after year.

By the way: President Johnson and President Nixon stole billions from Social Security to finance the Vietnam War. Now the government is repaying it to Social Security at only 5 percent per year.

To add insult to injury, Gov. Malloy wants to raise taxes here and there and cut things here and there. Yet he wants to spend $81 million for rail cars and some $8 million for a smoking-cessation program.